OK, before I get blasted, "why in heck are you still using AOL?"
I am old school. I started out with AOL around 15 years ago give or take a few and I am not much into change. I am using it as my browser as well as for email. I pay somewhere around $24.00 for the service. I've had the same email address since day one and didn't want to lose it.
All that said and before you jump on me for keeping it, let me first get to my rant.
Recently, AOL came out with AOL GOLD and you had to upgrade to it or you would not be able to do anything.
OK, so I upgraded. The first thing that I noticed was the way that I store my email addresses. Due to hacking and not wanting a bunch of my contacts to get requests to send me money in Europe, I began storing all of my email addresses with the letter "o" at the beginning. Since that isn't a real address, even if hacked, none of my friends would ever again get an annoying phony email from me. When I send out an email either to one person or a group, I begin typing their name and the address would appear. I would put a comma and start typing the next address and it would also appear etc. All I had to do was go back and remove the "o" from the beginning of each persons address and then send the mail. An inconvenience but better than folks getting porn or junk emails not really from me.
With the new AOL GOLD, when I start typing the name, it appears with the "o" but if I try to remove the "o" the whole address deletes. That's one.
Next up was my FAVORITE PLACES list. AOL allows you to capture the addresses of your favorite internet sites and place them in a list on your computer. I probably have 100 or more sites on my list. When you capture a site, it goes to the bottom of your list but you can move it anywhere in the list by grabbing the address with your mouse and moving it to where you want it. This allowed me to put like sites together like gun auctions, primitive rendezvous sites, car part sites, boat sites etc.
I even took all of my credit card and monthly accounts and had them listed with the date that they had to be paid and the decreasing balance if there was one. This way on the first of the month I just referred to the list and paid my bills as they came due. (I pay most of my bills online)
With the new AOL GOLD, they have taken my entire list and alphabetized them so now everything is scrambled and not the way that I had it or want it.
Now that you have the background, the RANT.
Why is it that these companies do these things without even so much as a how do you do and "would you like your favorite places alphabetized???" NO, some wiz kid at AOL just decided that he liked his favorite places that way so everyone in the universe should want them that way too.
Well guess what AOL, I HATE IT.
I emailed them and they wrote back that I could place like places in a folder and that would keep them all together. Well guess again AOL, yes it keeps them together but it still puts them in alphabetical order so my Bank of America account which is due on the 15th is listed before my Citibank card which is due on the 1st.
OK, rant over, let the pummeling begin.
I am old school. I started out with AOL around 15 years ago give or take a few and I am not much into change. I am using it as my browser as well as for email. I pay somewhere around $24.00 for the service. I've had the same email address since day one and didn't want to lose it.
All that said and before you jump on me for keeping it, let me first get to my rant.
Recently, AOL came out with AOL GOLD and you had to upgrade to it or you would not be able to do anything.
OK, so I upgraded. The first thing that I noticed was the way that I store my email addresses. Due to hacking and not wanting a bunch of my contacts to get requests to send me money in Europe, I began storing all of my email addresses with the letter "o" at the beginning. Since that isn't a real address, even if hacked, none of my friends would ever again get an annoying phony email from me. When I send out an email either to one person or a group, I begin typing their name and the address would appear. I would put a comma and start typing the next address and it would also appear etc. All I had to do was go back and remove the "o" from the beginning of each persons address and then send the mail. An inconvenience but better than folks getting porn or junk emails not really from me.
With the new AOL GOLD, when I start typing the name, it appears with the "o" but if I try to remove the "o" the whole address deletes. That's one.
Next up was my FAVORITE PLACES list. AOL allows you to capture the addresses of your favorite internet sites and place them in a list on your computer. I probably have 100 or more sites on my list. When you capture a site, it goes to the bottom of your list but you can move it anywhere in the list by grabbing the address with your mouse and moving it to where you want it. This allowed me to put like sites together like gun auctions, primitive rendezvous sites, car part sites, boat sites etc.
I even took all of my credit card and monthly accounts and had them listed with the date that they had to be paid and the decreasing balance if there was one. This way on the first of the month I just referred to the list and paid my bills as they came due. (I pay most of my bills online)
With the new AOL GOLD, they have taken my entire list and alphabetized them so now everything is scrambled and not the way that I had it or want it.
Now that you have the background, the RANT.
Why is it that these companies do these things without even so much as a how do you do and "would you like your favorite places alphabetized???" NO, some wiz kid at AOL just decided that he liked his favorite places that way so everyone in the universe should want them that way too.
Well guess what AOL, I HATE IT.
I emailed them and they wrote back that I could place like places in a folder and that would keep them all together. Well guess again AOL, yes it keeps them together but it still puts them in alphabetical order so my Bank of America account which is due on the 15th is listed before my Citibank card which is due on the 1st.
OK, rant over, let the pummeling begin.
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